CHAPTER 659: CHAPTER 317: [BIOGRAPHIES OF FAMOUS FIGURES: STREETLIGHTS AND GAS CHAMBERS] (4K)

"Playing games only allows you to experience and touch upon the events some celebrities were involved in."

"While movies can showcase the life of celebrities ’on Earth’. "

"They can bring different impacts from various aspects."

"The most important thing is."

"These plots are already completed."

"All it needs is rendering by the photon supercomputer, and then through editing, it can be fully presented."

"It’s like we have a complete storyline database."

"Just select some from it, render them, and you can receive a lot of audience feedback and praise, though... it might also be criticized as a bad film."

Zhao Ming said with a smile on his side.

But on Shen Qinghan’s side, she took a deep breath involuntarily.

No other reason.

This method is genuinely feasible.

The photon supercomputers on Blue Star are so abundant that they can render any storyline effortlessly.

However, individually rendered storyline movies are mostly crude.

The visuals might be passable, but the storyline is a mess, suitable for personal appreciation barely, but nobody would watch it outside.

Because anyone can render a movie, if the storyline isn’t captivating, who would watch your movie.

That’s why Shen Qinghan said the movie market is small.

Because in an era where anyone can make movies, only movies that are elaborately crafted by geniuses or teams are accepted by the public.

This also leads to the higher threshold and fewer quantities in the movie industry.

Although the Blue Star’s population is large.

Not everyone has the leisure to meticulously craft a script, and photon supercomputers are, after all, an auxiliary tool, capable of extending a sentence to ten while barely retaining the original meaning.

But when extended to hundreds, thousands of sentences, it’s already unrecognizable.

So, the movies on the market are almost all team productions, with a few individual movies being diligently polished and rendered masterpieces by geniuses.

But on Polestar’s side.

There’s completely none of this tedious process.

Because from the [Huaxia] series starting with the Qin dynasty, to later, Han, Three Kingdoms, Sui Tang... and so on and so forth versions.

There are countless people to pick from to showcase individual feats.

Turning the lives of popular historical figures into a single movie or biography can be completed with just editing.

Not to mention those historical figures from [World War II].

The former Blue Star Players were familiarized with these figures through the narratives or brief CG highlights.

But what if one could watch the entirety of their experiences?

Showing the lives of those celebrities, from childhood dreams and hardships, confusion and struggles in youth, to the vicissitudes of World War I, World War II, and to the downfall of a hero, etc.

Sss——

The more Shen Qinghan thought about it, the more she realized the potential of such movies.

Unlike others or teams that need delicate crafting.

If Polestar were to shoot a movie, the script exists within ’Earth’, just pick out the data of an individual and render the past.

And with the computing power of the current photon supercomputer.

As long as Zhao Ming selects the tasks to render, retrieves the life data of related people, he can render as much as he wants.

Massive rendering.

Compared to individual meticulous crafting and team efforts, it’s a dimensionality reduction attack.

After all, there is no precedent yet.

Moreover, no other game’s player retention is as high as the [World War II] series, if done like this, other large games might also start mimicking.

After all, they all have complete worldviews, they just hadn’t thought in that direction before, not refining the NPC’s life.

Since last year.

With Polestar Company refining even the lives of ordinary NPC residents completely.

Many people began to pay attention.

Since on Blue Star, the [World War II] series where every NPC’s whole life is detailed, is unique.

Other companies are paying attention too.

But their focus is on refining key NPCs only.

Whereas if Polestar starts making movies, imitation surely will follow.

Then a lot of character movies and biographies need to be made from the start.

Shen Qinghan became more and more tempted, opening her mouth to ask:

"Do you have a plan?"

"Which ones are you preparing to render first?"

Zhao Ming responded:

"It would definitely be the heads of nations from the [World War II] series."

"Or the biographies of some famous generals."

"For instance."

"The three major generals of the Imperial."

"Manstein, Guderian, Rommel, previously only encountered from a player’s perspective in the narrative."

"If you render them into personal biographies."

"Players can then see the internal activities, choices, and final moments when commanding certain famous battles."

"These are perspectives players have never experienced."

"And it also fully presents a ’character’ with flesh and blood."

"No longer just the revered general ’in the storyline’."

"Players will discover they also have worries, moments of hesitation."

"This will make the storyline’s characters more three-dimensional."

"Additionally."

"The President of the United States, who dominated World War II."

"Players only felt the power of the United States back then, unaware that the U.S. President at the time was a ruthless figure."

Upon hearing this.

Shen Qinghan became interested:

"How ruthless?"

According to her understanding of the World War II narrative, the world’s leaders seemed formidable, whether from the Imperial, Soviet Union, or British Commonwealth....

But it seems the one from the United States was often overlooked.

Now thinking about it.

The President of the United States back then was likely quite impressive.

After all, they held the center stage then.

How could such a ’storyline character’ be ordinary?

Zhao Ming rubbed his chin:

"Have you seen the financial report from Polestar Company?"

"Isn’t the tax law in the Great Xia Federation reasonable?"

"But do you know to what extent the U.S. in the storyline back then taxed those ladies?"

Shen Qinghan was taken aback and said:

"Hmm.... 49%?"

It’s almost half already, surely it can’t be more than half?

Zhao Ming shook his head and said with a smile:

"Turn it over."

Shen Qinghan was confused for a moment, then widened her eyes:

"94%?"

"Sss——"

"Is this for real?"

"Would anyone pay taxes like that?"

"Aren’t they afraid of rebellions?"

She thought 49% was already a lot, nearly half, but Zhao Ming came up with 94%!

If 94% of profits go to taxes, what’s left, the remaining 6% would likely be spent on wages.

Might as well be working for free?

Would anyone actually do that?

This got Shen Qinghan genuinely intrigued by that U.S. President.

Especially about his life experiences and methods.

Zhao Ming said:

"Of course not."

"Because of the world environment at the time."

"Either be sent to the Imperial’s gas chambers or be hung under Soviet Union’s street lamps, compared to that."

"The United States at least let you live."

"In that sense."

"Isn’t paying 94% in taxes rather good?"

Shen Qinghan’s mouth twitched.

Indeed.

Compared to being sent to gas chambers or hung on street lamps, although one paid 94% in taxes, they were at least alive... But... Shen Qinghan thought of something:

"Speaking of which."

"I remember he seemed to have died before World War II ended, right?"

"Could it be...."

Zhao Ming shook his head:

"That wasn’t the case."

"Just normal life and death from illness."

"After all, he was already in a wheelchair, and his illness just flared up."

"But later on, the Roosevelt family was basically suppressed."

Shen Qinghan nodded.

That was understandable, given the special circumstances of World War II, with death looming on both sides, and only the United States offering survival, one had to endure whatever came.

But after the war ended....

The power of money is also terrible.

From Shen Qinghan’s perspective, she could endure a 94% tax when her life was in constant jeopardy, but once the threat to life was gone.

Then....

She’s not the only one who would think like that.

Other people taxed 94% might think the same too.

After all, who wants a patriarchal figure oppressing them?

Shen Qinghan said:

"You sort things out first."

"What about the special storyline copies?"